This week’s birthday celebrants.
Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Gun Club), June 27, 1958
Other June 27 birthdays:
Doc Pomus, 1925
Anna Moffo, 1932
Sergiu Celibidache, classical conductor, June 28, 1912
Sergiu Celibidache, classical conductor, June 28, 1912
Other June 28 birthdays:
Joseph Joachim, legendary classical violinist and composer, 1831
Richard Rodgers, the musical half of famed songwriting teams Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1902
Greg Hetson, guitarist of Redd Kross, Circle Jerks, and Bad Religion, June 29, 1961
Other June 29 birthdays:
Frank Loesser, Broadway songwriter, 1910
Bernard Herrmann, soundtrack composer, 1911
Rafael Kubelik, classical conductor, 1914
Little Eva, R&B/early rock ‘n’ roll singer, 1943
Anne-Sophie Mutter, classical violinist, 1963
Andrew Hill, jazz composer and pianist, June 30, 1931
Yngwie Malmsteen, virtuoso metal guitarist, June 30, 1963
Rafal Blechacz, classical pianist, June 30, 1985
Other June 30 birthdays:
Lena Horne, chanteuse and civil rights crusader, 1917
Dave Van Ronk, folk singer and guitar teacher, 1936
Florence Ballard, singer in the Supremes, 1943
Stanley Clarke, jazz fusion bassist, 1951
Esa-Pekka Salonen, classical conductor, 1958
Debby Harry, singer of Blondie, July 1, 1945
Sufjan Stevens, indie-rock singer-songwriter, July 1, 1975
Other July 1 birthdays:
Thomas A. Dorsey, blues and gospel singer and songwriter, 1899
Willie Dixon, blues songwriter and bassist, 1915
Hans Werner Henze, classical conductor, 1926
Fred Schneider of the B-52s, 1951
Missy Elliot, imaginative rapper, 1971
Christoph Willibald von Gluck, innovative opera composer, July 2, 1714
Other July 2 birthdays:
Frederick Fennell, conductor specializing in brass ensembles, 1914
Paul Williams, singer in the Temptations, 1939
Roy Bittan, pianist in the E Street Band, 1949
Fontella Bass, soul singer, July 3, 1940
Johnnie Wilder, Jr. of British disco band Heatwave, July 3, 1949
Other July 3 birthdays:
Leos Janacek, classical composer, 1854
Carl Schuricht, classical conductor, 1880
Vince Clarke, co-founder of Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Yazoo, 1960
